I did see the thread about an iPhone app, which was not too popular, but I thought this idea was unique enough that it should be posted.

I'm currently contributing to all four SO sites. Particularly where Super User and Stack Overflow are concerned, I'm finding it difficult to keep up. Perhaps I need to choose which sites to contribute to in order to keep myself from going nuts, but I also think a desktop app would have a chance at better integrating the sites for those of us who use more than one concurrently.

Also, it might help bring into prominence some of the SO family features which are currently a little underused, like favorites, notifications (one e-mail a day?) &c.

I am not capable of building such an application myself, but I'd be interested to see what people think of this idea.

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It is fully open source (LGPL) and uses only public information (e.g no inpersonation). Please have a look at it if you wish. (and hope it remains functional). At the current level, it's quite operational but there are still much to do in terms of functionality, and of course testers and improvement suggestions are always welcome.

That's some pretty awesome work kd304, thank you! Keep us posted with any further progress if ya can.
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EhtyarAug 2 '09 at 11:40

Just watch the site for new versions and report anything you discovered, or any feature requests you can imagine in my app.
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akarnokdAug 2 '09 at 13:10

Can you substantiate your assertion that Jeff works to block 3rd party applications? If so that is pretty hypocritical of him after his experience with CraigsList and I'd lose a little respect for him.
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joshperryNov 4 '09 at 19:56

I think he was just saying that unless Jeff does that, all should be ok.
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Valentin RocherMay 1 '10 at 19:07

I have never seen any suggestion as far as a desktop app, but I would imagine that if/when a usable API is developed for the different StackExchange sites, any type of application could be developed regardless of their environment.

I don't know how well a desktop-app would do in comparison to a web-app that can be accessed from anywhere, but I imagine that it would be a popular idea for people to work on.